One Trip to the Grocery Store Brings You Haiku

I was "thinking" again about what I considered to be my problems. My misery used up so much energy, that I fast found myself hungry, with nothing but plenty of butter in my part of the fridge. So, a trip to the grocery store was in order.

Upon getting to the store, my head was full of it's usual "glorified world of hurt," about how things have been for me, as a man, and, as a Dad. Upon reaching the back of the store, back by the dairy aisle, and totally unexpecting what happened next, my Universe gave me a gift.

The loudspeaker over head said: "Vwha-vwha-vwavwavwa." Immediately, a young lady came giggling from around a wall, by the dairy aisle. Following her was a boy, probably close in age, playing his best straight Broadway performance, that nothing was going on. But we all knew, every customer in that part of the store knew, and we all shared a smile silently. I chuckled, because that's how I roll, but just for a second.

My Universe then pointed out to me that life was all humming along swimmingly, with or without me, and all might not quite be easy, but all is correct.

Near dairy aisle
Young lovers run from the back
She grins. He wipes face.

And those two were all the evidence my eyes needed to see that life should go on. That brief nanosecond of we few strangers communicating silently for a second reminds me that we're all "just people" in a way that can't, and needn't be, labaratory verified. Such a vivid reminder took us all back to the days of our own youth of our loves, and the love of our youths gone. From there, everything just continued on, as normal.

I'm reminded of a wiser man's teaching to me that it's our thoughts that make "a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." And "Thinking makes it so," was another thing this same man taught me. So that whether I'm right, or whether I'm wrong, I'm correct. I'm just where I need to be, in my Universe, wherever I am. I've seen the proof, that life is, in deed and in fact, going on anyway.